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Kent, England

The Resting Place of Pocahontas

The last resting place of the famous Native American princess is marked by a haunting monument.
Derby, England

Arbor Low Stone Circle

6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.
Gotham, England

The Original Gotham

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.
Cornwall, England

The Merry Maidens

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.
Bath, England

Herschel Museum of Astronomy

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
Bratton, England

Westbury White Horse

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.
Bray, England

Oakley Court

You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.
London, England

The Soho Square Hut

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.
Hereford, England

Hereford Cathedral Chained Library

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.
York, England

The Snickelways of York

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.
Seaham, England

Charybdis Fountain

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.
Barnard Castle, England

The Silver Swan

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.
Mawnan Smith, England

Glendurgan Garden Maze

The twists and turns of this serpentine maze are over 170 years old.
London, England

Viking Tombstone

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.
Chipping Norton, England

Rollright Stones

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.
Buckinghamshire, England

Dockey Wood Bluebells

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.
Oxford, England

The Headington Shark

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.
Oxford, England

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.
England

Devil's Bridge on Spooky Lane

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.
Ely, England

Octagon Tower

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.
Downe, England

Down House

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.
London, England

Site of Execution Dock

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.
Gloucestershire, England

Chedworth Roman Villa

Deep in the countryside lie the remains of one of the grandest Roman dwellings in Britain.
Cerne Abbas, England

The Cerne Abbas Giant

Giant naked man on a hillside.